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VII the Eastern Islands (Nuguria, Tauu and Nukumanu) THE EASTERN ISLANDS (NUGURIA, TAUU AND NUKUMANU) VII The Eastern Islands (Nuguria, Tauu and Nukumanu) ast of the large Melanesian islands extends a For years the population has been in the process Elong chain of small islands, mostly raised of dying out. The current number is about fifteen. coral reefs or atolls, belonging geographically to In 1902 alone, sixteen died, particularly as a result Melanesia, but occupying a quite special position of influenza. The natives’ physical resistance seems ethnographically. to be very low, and it will not be many more years Three of these small atolls, Nuguria, Tauu and before none of the present population exists. In Nukumanu, have been annexed by the German 1885 when I first visited this small group I esti- protectorate. A fourth group, Liueniua or Ong­­­ mated the population to be at least 160 people. tong Java, by far the most significant, was Ger - Tauu, pronounced Tau’u’u (Mortlock or Mar- man for a time but then by treaty passed into queen Islands; Dr Thilenius names it incorrectly as English hands. Taguu), is likewise an atoll structure. It lies at ap- Although the three German groups are of no proximately 157ºE longitude and 4º50’S latitude, great interest commercially and probably never and the total land area of the islands is no greater will be, ethnographically they are of no small im- than 200 hectares. The distance from Nuguria is portance because in spite of being in a Melanesian about 150 nautical miles. The nearest point in the neighbourhood, they are inhabited by Polynesians. Solomon Islands, Cape le Cras, is about 120 nauti- In volumes X and XI of the Internationales Ar- cal miles away. The island, like Nuguria, was taken chiv für Ethnographie I have reported extensively over by a European planter, who is exploiting the on these islands. Later, in the Abhandlungen der stands of coconut and is bringing the previously Kaiserl. Leop.-Carol. Deutschen Akademie der unplanted areas into cultivation. Naturforscher, Dr Thilenius, based to some extent The population is in rapid decline and currently on my earlier work, examined the entire island consists of about twenty people. In 1885 there were chain and discussed the origin of its inhabitants about fifty. Had the European owner of the island in greater detail. not looked after the small population, they might Nuguria (Abgarris or Fead Islands) consists have already disappeared from the scene. of two atolls divided by a deep arm of the sea. The Nukumanu atoll (Tasman Islands) lies at The southern one is the real Nuguria while the approximately 159º30’E longitude and 4º35’S northern is called Malum. Both atolls stretch more latitude, about 135 nautical miles east of Tauu and than about 25 nautical miles along a main north- only about 25 nautical miles north of the large atoll west - south-east axis. The maximum breadth of of Liueniua (Ongtong Java). the atoll is about 6 nautical miles. The islands on The surface area of all the islands amounts to the coral reef, of which the main island, Nuguria, 250 hectares. Here also the main product is co- is by far the largest, together encompass about conut, but not much is exported because in pro- 1,000 hectares. The group lies fairly distant from portion to size the population is fairly significant, the larger islands – about 120 nautical miles from actu ally around 300 according to a census that I New Ireland and about 100 nautical miles from the took in 1900. That the mortality rate is less high northern end of the Solomon Islands. According here and the population more resistant is prob- to the map the position of the main island is about ably because new additions from the quite heavily 154º50’E longitude, and 3º30’S latitude. The populated Liueniua from time to time bring about islands are provided with coconut palms and the a re generation, which does not occur on the other firm E.E. Forsayth is carrying out a regular planta- islands because of their isolated positions. tion business here. The company has planted out All these islands are populated by Polynesians entire islands with coconut palms and can expect with a perceptible, though small, admixture of a significant income in a few years’ time. Melanesian blood. Now, all Polynesians have, to a 225 THIRTY YEARS IN THE SOUTH SEAS doubt identical to that of the island of Rotuma. The name Tauu also reflects Samoa. We could therefore assume that the present remainder of the population is a remnant of an immigrant tribe from Polynesia, probably from Samoa, which used the islands of Rotuma and Tikopia as intermediate stages. While we have quite extensive information from the other islands about religion, the names of the gods and their functions, the numerous spirits that inhabit reef, sea and air, Tauu lets us down. The current high priest, a Nukumanu native shipwrecked here, is not totally reliable about the old, original beliefs; in his accounts I have often been able to observe that he has not been able to free himself from the impressions of his youth. Nevertheless, I was able to monitor his information sufficiently from the stories from Nukumanu and Liueniua. However, to him too the old legends about immigration and origin have remained unknown, or if he has heard them Fig. 83 Girls of they have long since disappeared from his memory. Nukumanu (Tasman Before I go further, I want to give a brief account Islands) of the legends of the various islands. On Nuguria I was told: In the beginning two gods came over the ocean in a canoe with three women. They came from Nu kuoro and Taraua. The names of the gods were Katiariki and Haraparapa; the three women were called Lopi, Tefuai and Tupulelei. When the canoe reached the reef, Katiariki struck the water with his staff and from the deep arose a bubble that burst on reaching the surface and from it sprang a third god, named Loatu. At the same time a sandbank rose above the ocean surface, beneath the feet of the three gods. Katiariki and Haraparapa were great friends and took Loatu into their band as well. However, when they observed that the island was desolate and undeveloped, Katiariki and Harapa rapa decided to make a journey to seek food; Loatu was delegated to guard the island. During the absence Fig. 84 Boys of of the former two gods, another god appeared, Nukumanu (Tasman named Tepu. He came from Nukumanu, drove out Islands) Loatu and took possession of the island. Meanwhile Katiariki and Haraparapa returned with food, and great extent, the habit of preserving old traditions, when they saw that Tepu had taken their possession and as it is recognised that almost without exception they were incensed, and in their anger they threw these have an historical basis, it is of great interest away the food that they had brought with them. to gather the remnants of these traditions and This is why a certain edible sea snail and the yam draw further conclusions from them. In the case plant occur only on the Malum group and not on the of Nuguria and Nukumanu, the latter of which Nuguria group. Katiariki and Harapa rapa summoned shows great correspondence with Liueniua, a whole the evicted Loatu and all settled on Nu guria. Tepu number of such traditions is available. For Tauu lived on the small hill Mauga (mountain) and right the material is most inadequate; the population in to the present day this is hal lowed ground and soil, their steady decline has apparently lost all interest dedicated exclusively to the gods and their worship. in earlier times, and from several old songs I was Katiariki and Haraparapa settled to the right and able to determine only that the names Sawaii (one Loatu to the left of the hill, Mauga, and today they of the Samoan Islands) and Tikopia were familiar are all still regarded as higher beings. to them. One of the aitu or godlike revered ances- Dr Thilenius quotes the following accounts tors is called Lotuma. One of the islands on the given to him, according to which eight different reef bears the same name, a name that is without immigrations are named: 226 THE EASTERN ISLANDS (NUGURIA, TAUU AND NUKUMANU) • Katiariki, Haraparapa and Haurua from how to prepare food with the aid of fire, which Nuku oro (450 nautical miles northward); was not previously known either. Sapu brought • Loatu from Sikaiana (590 nautical miles coconuts out of the canoe, and planted them on south-eastwards); the island, thus laying the ground for the present • Tepu, Apua, Akati from Tarawa (1,110 stands of coconut palms. Ame le lago had brought nautical miles eastwards); taro plants, and with Keruahine he established the • Nuguria, Mahuike from Sikaiana; first taro crops. Keruahine introduced tattooing; • Arapi, Tupulelei (female), Tefuai (female) Lolo stretched out on a mat and was tattooed by from Tarawa; her with the still-used patterns. Tattooing was thus • Ranatau, Lopi (female) from Nukufetau universal, and to the present day it is a women’s (1,440 nautical miles eastwards); task. Ame le lago also showed the people how to • Hooti, Aitu, Arei, Atipu from Nukumanu make mats on a weaving loom for clothing men (300 nautical miles south-eastwards). and women, and consequently weaving is still done Finally, at the time of Tepu, Pakewa arrived from by men; only the highest chief and his relatives do the high seas in the form of a fish. not practise weaving. No traditions are known to us from Tauu; how- After a while Lolo chose Keruahine as his wife, ever, in the holy house there an aitu is revered, but in so doing incensed both his comrades, Keui bearing the name Loatu, a higher being that we and Puapua, who also had their eyes on Keruahine, also encounter on Nuguria, and on Nukumanu and Puapua was so angry that he left the island and Liueniua as well.
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